George Poindexter

George Poindexter (1779-5 September 1853) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Mississippi's at-large district from 10 December 1817 to 3 March 1819, preceding Christopher Rankin; Governor from 5 January 1820 to 7 January 1822, succeeding David Holmes and preceding Walter Leake; and US Senator from 15 October 1830 to 3 March 1835, succeeding Robert H. Adams and preceding Robert J. Walker.

Biography
George Poindexter was born in Louisa County, Virginia in 1779, and he became a lawyer in 1800. He moved to the Mississippi Territory in 1802, where he set up his law practice in Natchez, and he served as Attorney General of the territory from 1803 to 1807, during which time he prosecuted Aaron Burr for his conspiracy to conquer the Southwest. Poindexter was then elected as a territorial delegate to the US House of Representatives from 4 March 1807 to 3 March 1813, interrupting William Lattimore's terms. In 1811, he killed a wealthy planter in a duel caused by the planter's Federalist Party sympathies. Poindexter went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819 and as Governor from 1820 to 1822, and he was appointed to the US Senate in 1830 to finish Robert H. Adams' term. He left office in 1835, and he moved to Kentucky, where he practiced law. He died in Jackson, Mississippi in 1853.